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Under The Power
Episode 48
You used to take care of her,
but now you don't need to do that anymore.
Ling,
you mean...
Lu Yi already came to propose a marriage.
After all, he is Lu Ting's eldest son.
If he marries Jinxia,
considering his identity,
I think he can protect her.
That's a good idea.
No.
You can't allow that.
If Lu Ting knows Jinxia's family background...
No.
Sorry for having let you wait for so long.
Your Excellency.
I'm happy to wait for you, no matter how long it is.
Your Excellency.
I have a very big secret.
Do you want to know it?
What is it?
I've found my family,
and I know some information about many of my relatives.
But
they passed away,
and I can't see them anymore.
So,
she knows everything.
I didn't expect
that Aunt Lin, I mean, Doctor Lin,
is really my aunt,
my aunt.
My mother was her sister.
Really?
What a nice coincidence!
My maternal grandfather was a famous doctor in Quanzhou Prefecture.
No wonder my aunt is such an excellent doctor.
Do you know who my paternal grandfather was?
Xia Ran.
I didn't know that I'm the former Grand Secretary's granddaughter.
And back then, Xia Ran...
Stop.
Father,
you could have saved them back then.
But because you were afraid of the Yan family,
you did nothing as they were persecuted.
So my grandfather used to be a high-ranking official.
Though they say that my grandfather committed a crime,
I know that he was framed up by others.
The Yan family is my biggest enemy.
Did Doctor Lin
tell you that you should take revenge for them?
No.
But they destroyed my family.
I will take revenge.
I will find out
all the people that framed up my grandfather.
The Yan family definitely were involved.
Jinxia,
the Yan family's power is beyond your imagination.
You can't reveal your identity.
No matter how badly you hate them,
don't act on impulse.
Jinxia,
why are you
Xia Ran's granddaughter?
At last,
she knew her family background.
If she knows the truth about Xia Ran's case,
we'll face
a problem that can't be solved.
What can I do
to minimize the harm to her?
[Meet me at 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.]
He suddenly asked to meet me.
Did anything happen?
Well,
you asked me to come out so late.
Can you
say something aside from drinking wine?
I'm really not used to
seeing you being so worried.
If you trust me, just tell me.
I won't tell others.
How much do you know
about what happened to Xia Ran?
Xia Ran, the former Grand Secretary?
That case was a long time ago.
Yeah.
It was over a decade ago.
As you said, it was over a decade ago.
How does it have anything to do with you?
You were
less than 10 years old then, weren't you?
At the time,
overnight,
the Xia family was overthrown,
and the Yan family rose to power
and dominated the court.
I was very young then.
My master told me a little about it.
It seemed that His Majesty had agreed to let Xia Ran
retire as minister.
Later
what put Xia Ran in real trouble
was a letter provided by Qiu Cheng.
I heard that Yan Song told Qiu Cheng
to impeach Xia Ran keeping a close relation with Zeng Xian.
You know,
if a border general keeps a close relation with a courtier, that's a capital crime.
Xia Ran was killed because of that letter.
Yeah.
Qiu Cheng was in Imperial Prison at the time.
How did Yan Song get this letter?
Imperial Prison?
Back then, your father managed it, didn't he?
Definitely your father...
So this had something to do with your father?
At that time,
he was impeached,
and Xia Ran released him.
After that,
my father hated him to death.
Wait.
I, I didn't get it.
Xia Ran released your father,
but your father hated Xia Ran to death?
At that time,
my father visited him in person,
and begged
Xia Ran to release him as he knelt on the ground.
I see.
People in your family have been officials for generations.
What was your father?
He is arrogant.
But regardless of dignity, he knelt down in front of Xia Ran.
He couldn't accept it.
That's understandable.
But you don't know
that Jinxia is Xia Ran's granddaughter
and Xia Changqing's daughter.
Jinxia is a member of the Xia family?
So you two are
enemies?
The Xia family consisted of over 100 people,
and the Lin family over 70.
If Jinxia knows it,
how can I face her?
If I were her,
I would hate you.
I worry that Jinxia
doesn't know what to do
as my father is her enemy.
Right.
Considering her character,
I think
she won't hate you,
and she may even not complain about you.
At last,
she will only complain about the fate
and hate herself.
I don't want to see that.
She will destroy herself then.
What can you do?
I,
I don't know what to do, either.
Come on. Let's drink.
Aunt, I was scared.
What are you embroidering?
I want to embroider a character,
but it's too hard for me.
You came just in time.
Come on, let me help.
You are embroidering...
Xia.
Why do you want to embroider it?
This is a gift to Mr. Lu.
I see.
You give this handkerchief to him
because you want him to take it with him
and miss you all the time, right?
That's a reason,
and it'll always be with him on behalf of me.
Look.
Look, this part is disordered.
The stitches should be removed.
Well, let me remove them for you.
Okay?
No.
I know how to do it. I'll do the embroidering myself.
I'll do it myself.
Don't remove them, don't, don't.
If you need my help,
just tell me.
Thank you, aunt.
Right, Jinxia.
I came to tell you
that we can visit your old house tomorrow.
I haven't been there these years,
and I don't know what it is like now.
Okay.
Have rest early.
Mind your eyes.
Jinxia.
For your good,
I'm sorry,
I can only choose to hurt you.
[Xia]
When you were young,
you liked the two stone lions most.
You often played around here,
and even took away the stone balls in their mouths.
Did I?
I don't remember any of it.
Let's get in and have a look.
Jinxia.
Grandpa. Come her, come here.
Wonderful. Wonderful.
Wonderful.
That's wonderful.
To the left.
To the right.
Good.
Jinxia.
I often dreamt about a little girl
playing hopscotch with an elderly man.
So that elderly man was my grandfather.
You think of it?
The past
seems like yesterday.
The landscape is the same,
while those people are gone.
Aunt.
I forget many things in my childhood,
but you remember them clearly.
But as the only survivor of the Xia family,
I will take the responsibility of proving my grandfather's innocence.
If your parents knew
what you think now,
they would be very happy.
Let's go back.
Let's go.
Your Excellency, I have something important to report now.
What is it?
I've got information about Lin Ling's niece.
Who is it?
It's someone you know well,
Yuan Jinxia.
No way.
What a coincidence!
This gets interesting.
I used to imagine
what the woman
to be with me in the rest of my life
and give birth for me is like.
But I never expected
that it's you.
But why are you
Xia Ran's granddaughter?
Come, come.
Wait for me.
Come here.
Slow down, slow down. Be careful.
Is this
just fate?
Jinxia.
For what my father did,
I will pay you back.
Your Excellency, your pulse is superficial and floats.
You have extra qi in your liver.
So restrain yourself from getting angry in ordinary times.
I'll prescribe some medicine to smoothen qi and invigorate the circulation of blood for you.
Please take it on time.
Don't try to hide it from me.
Just tell me the truth.
Considering my condition,
for how long
do you think I can live on?
Err...
Three months? Five months?
Or a year or half a year?
Your Excellency, as long as you take medicine on time,
you will recover.
I hope I can make it to the end of the year.
Send the doctor away.
Yes.
Doctor, this way, please.
I hope you can recover soon.
Please.
Master, don't worry.
If you cultivate your health well, you'll recover.
It's fate.
After I became an Embroidered Uniform Guard,
my life has never been my own.
Now the only one
I worry about is Yi.
He is young,
and pays high attention to friendship.
If he goes on being so obstinate,
I worry that he may fall into trouble.
If anything bad really happened to him,
I would
disappoint his mother in the netherworld.
If Young Master knows your sickness,
he'll restrain himself somewhat.
He hasn't come back?
Cen Fu said
that he will handle affairs in the North Bureau tonight.
Leave.
Yes.
Your Excellency.
You
didn't sleep last night?
Last night you didn't go back home.
Commander Lu worries much about you.
Commander Lu...
Father.
You are busy, but you need to rest.
I know it.
Father,
why are you here so early today?
His Majesty gave some orders,
and I have to come to supervise them.
Father,
are you okay?
I'm fine.
I just caught a cold.
Commander Lu.
An accident.
The star observation temple collapsed.
His Majesty burst into rage, and asked you to go meet him.
The star observation temple collapsed?
I'm going to meet His Majesty.
You go to the site now.
Yes.
Tell me
why it collapsed.
Less than half of the work was done,
but it collapsed.
If it were done,
and I lived in it,
wouldn't I lose my life for it?
Your Majesty, please don't be mad.
Because of the scouring of rain over the consecutive days,
the collapse happened
as the foundation wasn't firm
and it hadn't been reinforced.
After the rain stops,
I'll order them to reinforce it.
It'll be as solid as Mount Tai.
Don't worry, Your Majesty.
Such an accident won't happen anymore.
You mean that the heavens don't want me to
build the star observation temple?
I don't dare.
Your Majesty, please don't be mad.
The accident occurred
because I didn't do my work well.
Please punish me.
I'll give you a month to complete the star observation temple.
If any more mistake occurs,
you can resign as the Left Deputy Minister of Works
and go back home.
Yes, Your Majesty.
Your Majesty, Commander Lu asks to meet you.
Let him in.
Greetings, Your Majesty.
Leave.
I'm leaving.
All right, stand up.
Thank you, Your Majesty.
Mr. Lu, you heard about the accident
of the star observation temple?
I just heard about it.
I've sent my son to investigate it.
Just now Yan Shifan said
the scouring of rain caused the shaking of the foundation.
What do you think about this?
It happened all of a sudden.
I have to look into it thoroughly to get a conclusion.
I don't believe that at all.
How heavy rain did he need to shake the foundation?
If that were right, the imperial palace had already been submerged.
People in the Ministry of Works
have been careless for a long time.
In ordinary times,
I just turned a blind eye to it.
But now
they want to trick me.
Mr. Lu,
send people to investigate it
and find the real reason that caused the collapse.
And,
investigate
to find what the money of the Ministry of Works
was spent on.
-Find the truth. -Yes.
And report to me timely.
Yes, Your Majesty.
Remember,
don't leak any information out.
Yes, Your Majesty.
Come on. Quick.
Be careful.
Hurry.
Wait.
Your Excellency.
The wood
is from the collapsed star observation temple?
Your Majesty, yes.
Where are you carrying it to?
To abandon it outside the West Garden.
Abandon it?
I see that it's still quite new.
Why do you abandon it?
You may not know this.
The used wood can't be used anymore.
Moreover, it has been scoured by rain.
It won't be firm enough, and it's inauspicious.
Your Excellency, is there a problem with it?
Nothing.
Go on with your work.
Yes.
Go.
Hurry. Hurry.
Mr. Lu.
Sorry, I'm late.
You know,
it's really not easy
to get out of the imperial palace in the daytime.
It doesn't matter.
Right.
You know what happened to the star observation temple?
How can I not know
such an important matter?
I went there and had a check.
They said that the rain scoured and destroyed the foundation,
but I thought about it carefully.
If that were true,
they should first repair
the foundation, right?
But why did they carry
the wood out of the imperial palace so hastily?
Yeah.
His Majesty summoned me and asked about it.
He didn't issue an imperial edict to scold the Ministry of Works,
but asked me to practice divination for him.
So
His Majesty must be also suspicious about this matter.
What did you say?
What could I say?
I said something vaguely.
I told him that recently there are abnormal astronomical phenomena,
and I will come to a conclusion after I observe the astronomical phenomena at night.
That's why I asked you out so hastily.
I want to ask you
what I should tell
His Majesty about this matter.
Since it has something to do with the Ministry of Works,
maybe it's a chance.
There must be something wrong with the wood.
We can't let the Ministry of Works get away with this.
If His Majesty asks you about it again,
just tell him that.
Yes.
If others know
that behind me,
there is Jiang Ziya that takes everything under control, I mean, you,
I would lose my reputation as Taoist priest.
Hurry.
Be careful.
Xi, have you checked it at the wharf?
The wood and goods to be shipped to the capital
have piled up.
This order
is nearly equal to
two or three orders we receive in ordinary times.
It's really big.
As there are so many goods,
it's complicated to check them.
So we shoulder more responsibility in protecting them.
You forget that last time
we agreed to escort the money for Zhou Xianyi,
and though we were careful in all ways,
it was lost?
It wasn't our fault,
and we shouldn't be the ones to be blamed.
You think it too simply.
If Mr. Lu and Jinxia
hadn't found the money,
we had to take responsibility for that.
Okay, okay.
I'll check the goods carefully this time.
No mistake will occur. Don't worry.
When will you leave?
Tomorrow morning.
Let's go.
Why did you bring medicine to me?
Why didn't you recover a little?
Should we get another doctor?
Diseases come on horseback,
but go away on foot.
How can I recover immediately?
Your Excellency.
Cen Fu, you go in first.
Yes.
You didn't come to me recently.
Have you been very busy?
Why did you come here?
You are not in a good mood today?
It doesn't matter.
I brought something for you.
This is a handkerchief I embroidered myself.
Take it.
It's my first time, so it may be a little ugly.
I hope you won't dislike it.
You want me to
always take this ugly handkerchief with me?
Your Excellency.
I don't have time for you.
If there is nothing else, I'm leaving.
Wait.
Your Excellency, what's wrong with you today?
Why do you talk with me this way?
You want to know why?
All right.
I can make it clear to you today,
and in the future, don't come to bother me anymore.
You should know who you are.
Considering that,
how can I take you to meet my father?
Who I am?
My family has a clear background.
If the information that we start seeing each other
spreads out,
and your identity is revealed,
it'll bring shame to my family.
You really think it that way?
People in your family have been officials for generations.
But my family
sells tofu on the street.
Does it
have anything to do with me marrying you?
There is a large gap between our family backgrounds.
Even if you agree,
your father won't allow it.
The only woman
that I want to marry in my life is you.
Yuan Jinxia.
I thought
you are different from others.
I thought
we are deeply attached.
Considering her character,
I think she won't hate you,
and she may even not complain about you.
At last she will only complain about the fate
and hate herself.
I got it.
I like someone I shouldn't.
Jinxia.
Forgive me.
I don't want to hurt you.
But
to protect you better,
I could only do that.
I got it.
I like someone I shouldn't.
That's enough.
Waiter.
Coming.
Two more pots of wine, please.
-OK. -Don't, don't.
Don't drink anymore.
You've drunk 0.5 kg.
There is still some left.
Yue.
Don't stop me.
Bring me some more wine.
OK.
Yue.
I'm such a fool.
Why did I
take it for granted
that after my identity is revealed
we can still be together?
No.
I never thought about that.
Well, can
there be any change?
Mr. Lu
has always been arbitrary.
I thought he wouldn't care about that.
He often said
I'm not like a girl.
Today I will gobble meat
and wine.
I,
-I will stand high and eat. -You may fall down.
So what if I fall down?
If the heavens fell down, His Excellency could hold it up for me.
Jinxia.
Your Excellency.
Why are you here?
Think it over before doing everything in the future.
Do you know how much trouble you cause to me
as you act recklessly?
Your Excellency.
Thank god I made it in time.
But I'm not so stupid
like forgetting my own life.
But I would.
He won't do that for me.
Don't be so sad.
Yeah.
The Lu family take high posts in the court.
How can it be possible that he doesn't care about it?
You can't drink much since you were a child.
I never saw you drink so much before.
No matter what happens,
you shouldn't drink regardless of your health.
I'm fine. I can drink more.
No.
Yue, please.
Please let me drink.
After I get drunk, I can
forget him.
OK. This is a deal.
If you get drunk,
forget him.
Go on drinking.
After you get drunk,
I'll carry you back.
Waiter.
Where is our wine? Serve it quickly.
Please wait. I'm coming soon.
Drink with me.
OK.
It's so good to have you as my friend, Yue.
Cheers.
Drink.
Come on.
Here we are.
Ma'am.
What happened?
Well,
she got drunk.
Why did she drink?
Come in quickly.
She was in a bad mood, so she drank some wine.
She was in a bad mood, so she could drink wine?
Thank god you carried her back.
If you hadn't carried her back,
no one would know it even if she fell into a river.
Right, right.
I can make it clear to you today,
and in the future, don't come to bother me anymore.
You should know who you are.
Considering that,
how can I take you to meet my father?
Jinxia.
Aunt.
Here.
Take this to sober up.
Don't drink so much wine anymore.
It'll hurt your body.
You can forget your worries after getting drunk,
but after you sober up,
the worries are still there,
and hurt you even more.
Yue told me yesterday
that you were unhappy because of Mr. Lu.
I thought
after I got drunk,
I could forget him
and forget those words he said to me.
But you can't.
Aunt.
Aunt, can you make something
for me to forget him?
I can make this to sober you up,
but I can't make that to help you forget him.
You can only rely on yourself to achieve that.
Jinxia.
I saw what you
have been through together.
Is there a misunderstanding?
How about having a good talk with him?
I have nothing to talk with him.